diff --git a/man2/sigaction.2 b/man2/sigaction.2
index 2a4400e63..e764b2abf 100644
--- a/man2/sigaction.2
+++ b/man2/sigaction.2
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ of the (configurable) system jiffy (see
 .\" measurement unit was HZ, which was the same as clock ticks
 .\" (sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK)).  In 2.6, HZ became configurable, and
 .\" was *still* used as the unit to return the info these fields,
-.\" with the result that the field values depended on the the
+.\" with the result that the field values depended on the
 .\" configured HZ.  Of course, the should have been measured in
 .\" USER_HZ instead, so that sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) could be used to
 .\" convert to seconds.  I have a queued patch to fix this: